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ISBN 10: 0190844752
ISBN 13: 9780190844752
Author:  Matthew Suriano

Table of contents:

Part I: The Archaeology of Death in Iron Age Judah

1. Death as Transition in Judahite Mortuary Practices

• The Judahite Bench Tomb as Ritual Space
• The Tomb as Separation
• The Liminal Space of the Tomb
• Marginality and Identity in Judahite Mortuary Practices
• Synthesis

2. The History of the Judahite Bench Tomb

• Mortuary Practices in the Iron Age
• The First Phase: Iron Age IB to Iron Age IIA
• The Second Phase: Iron Age IIB
• The Third Phase: Iron Age IIIA
• Jerusalem: Iron Age IIB through Iron Age III
• Historical Analysis

3. Writing and the Tomb

• The Funerary Inscriptions of the Silwan Necropolis
• The Identification of the Dead at Silwan
• Shebna’s Tomb and the Silwan Necropolis
• The Tomb Inscriptions of Khirbet el-Qôm
• The Inscriptions of Khirbet Beit Lei Tomb 1
• The Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets
• Analysis of Hebrew Funerary Inscriptions

Summary of Part I: A Brief History of Death in Judah during the Iron Age

Part II: Death and the Afterlife in the Hebrew Bible

4. Care for the Dead

• Care for the Defunct Soul
• The נפש as Defunct Soul in Leviticus
• The נפש as Defunct Soul in Numbers
• The npš in Aramaic Inscriptions
• Feeding the Dead
• Deuteronomy 26:14 and the Parameters of Feeding the Dead
• Feeding the Dead in Hosea 9:4
• Feeding the Dead at Zincirli (Sam’al)
• Feeding the Dead in Job 21:25
• Dedications for the Dead
• Conclusion

5. The Narrative of Bones

• Traditions of Joseph and His Bones
• The Death of Joseph
• The Role of the pāqidu in Mesopotamian Sources
• Care for the Dead at Khirbet Beit Lei
• Joseph’s Bones outside of Genesis
• The Death and Desecration of a Queen
• The Assassination of Joram and Jezebel
• The Destruction of Jezebel’s Body
• The Implications of a Bad Death
• Conclusion

6. The Tomb and the Identity of the Dead

• The Tomb and Identity
• The Death and Burial of Matriarchs
• Sarah and the Cave of Machpelah
• The Death of Rachel
• Death and Ideologies of Interment at Bethel
• The Man of God from Judah and His Burial in Bethel
• The Desecration of Bethel’s Dead in 2 Kings 23
• Conclusion

7. Death, Dying, and the Liminality of Sheol

• The Problem of Sheol in the Literary Sources
• Sheol in the Psalms
• Psalm 16
• Psalm 49
• Psalm 88
• Psalm 116
• Conclusion

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